GAME THREAD: GAME THREAD: NBA: GOLDEN STATE (3-6) at BOSTON (8-1)

NBA: GOLDEN STATE at BOSTON

<div class="pre">NBA GOLDEN STATE 79
BOSTON 98 3:08 LEFT, 4TH QTR</div>

 

NBA: GOLDEN STATE at BOSTON

<div class="pre">NBA GOLDEN STATE 79
BOSTON 101 1:11 LEFT, 4TH QTR</div>

 

NBA: GOLDEN STATE at BOSTON

<div class="pre">NBA GOLDEN STATE 82
BOSTON 105 FINAL</div>

 

NBA: GOLDEN STATE at BOSTON

<div class="pre">NBA FINAL 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL
--- --- --- --- -----
GOLDEN STATE 16 21 27 18 82
BOSTON 25 25 31 24 105 FINAL

HIGH SCORERS: GSW - MONTA ELLIS 21, STEPHEN JACKSON 15,
BARON DAVIS 13
BOS - RAY ALLEN 21, KEVIN GARNETT 20, PAUL
PIERCE 19</div>

 

NBA: GOLDEN STATE at BOSTON

<div class="pre">** CONFIRMED **
NBA
GOLDEN STATE 82
BOSTON 105 FINAL</div>

 

NBA: GOLDEN STATE at BOSTON

<div class="pre">GOLDEN STATE (82) AT BOSTON (105)

GOLDEN STATE

REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===

K AZUBUIKE G 24:29 1-7 0-0 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 3
B DAVIS G 28:58 3-13 6-6 0 3 3 4 3 5 3 13
M PIETRUS F 26:59 3-10 1-3 0 5 5 1 3 0 1 8
S JACKSON F 29:29 4-15 6-7 2 3 5 2 4 1 3 15
A BIEDRINS C 19:31 2-4 0-0 1 3 4 0 2 0 0 4
M ELLIS 42:47 10-15 1-3 2 0 2 3 3 4 2 21
M BELINELLI 22:28 1-9 2-3 1 2 3 0 0 1 0 4
A CROSHERE 15:49 2-7 0-0 3 0 3 0 1 0 2 4
B WRIGHT 12:55 2-4 3-4 4 5 9 0 3 0 0 7
D MBENGA 8:24 1-3 0-0 2 0 2 1 1 0 0 2
P O'BRYANT 8:11 0-0 1-2 1 2 3 0 0 0 2 1
A HARRINGTON DNP - NOT WITH TEAM

TOTALS 240:00 29-87 20-28 16 24 40 11 22 11 15 82
(.333) (.714) TEAM REBS: 8 TOTAL TO: 15 (14 PTS)

BOSTON

REBOUNDS
PLAYER POS MIN FGM-FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF-TOT AST PF ST TO PTS
====== === === ======= ======= =========== === == == == ===

R RONDO G 26:08 2-6 0-0 0 2 2 6 3 2 2 4
R ALLEN G 31:18 7-18 4-4 1 6 7 0 3 3 2 21
K GARNETT F 32:55 8-14 4-5 3 7 10 3 0 1 2 20
P PIERCE F 34:50 8-14 3-5 5 5 10 4 1 0 3 19
K PERKINS C 20:10 2-2 3-4 1 6 7 4 2 0 4 7
E HOUSE 25:17 6-13 0-0 0 3 3 2 2 3 1 15
J POSEY 22:02 1-4 2-2 0 4 4 2 1 0 0 4
T ALLEN 19:42 3-3 0-0 0 3 3 4 2 0 2 6
B SCALABRINE 12:48 1-2 0-0 0 2 2 1 2 0 0 3
S POLLARD 9:20 0-1 4-6 2 2 4 0 0 0 0 4
G DAVIS 3:25 0-2 2-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
L POWE 2:05 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0

TOTALS 240:00 38-79 22-28 12 40 52 26 18 9 17 105
(.481) (.786) TEAM REBS: 13 TOTAL TO: 19 (18 PTS)

GOLDEN STATE 16 21 27 18 - 82
BOSTON 25 25 31 24 - 105

BLOCKED SHOTS: GOLDEN STATE - P O'BRYANT. BOSTON - K PERKINS 2, K GARNETT,
R ALLEN, G DAVIS, J POSEY, T ALLEN.
3-PT. FIELD GOALS: GOLDEN STATE 4-22 (.182), K AZUBUIKE 1-2, B DAVIS 1-
4, M PIETRUS 1-6, S JACKSON 1-3, M ELLIS 0-1, M BELINELLI 0-3, A CROSHERE 0-
3. BOSTON 7-21 (.333), R ALLEN 3-8, P PIERCE 0-1, E HOUSE 3-9, J POSEY 0-
2, B SCALABRINE 1-1.
TECHNICAL FOULS: BOSTON - K PERKINS.
FLAGRANT FOULS: NONE.
OFFICIALS: DICK BAVETTA, GARY ZIELINSKI, VIOLET PALMER.
A - 18,624. T - 2:13.</div>

 

NBA: GOLDEN STATE at BOSTON

<div class="pre">GOLDEN STATE (82)

fg ft rb
min m-a m-a o-t a pf tp
K Azubuike 24:29 1-7 0-0 0-1 0 2 3
B Davis 28:58 3-13 6-6 0-3 4 3 13
M Pietrus 26:59 3-10 1-3 0-5 1 3 8
S Jackson 29:29 4-15 6-7 2-5 2 4 15
A Biedrins 19:31 2-4 0-0 1-4 0 2 4
M Ellis 42:47 10-15 1-3 2-2 3 3 21
M Belinelli 22:28 1-9 2-3 1-3 0 0 4
A Croshere 15:49 2-7 0-0 3-3 0 1 4
B Wright 12:55 2-4 3-4 4-9 0 3 7
D Mbenga 8:24 1-3 0-0 2-2 1 1 2
P O'Bryant 8:11 0-0 1-2 1-3 0 0 1
A Harrington DNP - NOT WITH TEAM

______________________________________________________
TOTALS 240:00 29-87 20-28 16-40 11 22 82
______________________________________________________

Percentages: FG-.333, FT-.714. 3-Point Goals:
4-22, .182 (K Azubuike 1-2, B Davis 1-4, M
Pietrus 1-6, S Jackson 1-3, M Ellis 0-1, M
Belinelli 0-3, A Croshere 0-3). Team
Rebounds: 8. Blocked Shots:1 (P O'Bryant).
Turnovers:15 (B Davis 3, S Jackson 3, A
Croshere 2, M Ellis 2, P O'Bryant 2, K
Azubuike 2, M Pietrus). Steals: 11 (B Davis
5, M Ellis 4, S Jackson, M Belinelli).


BOSTON (105)

fg ft rb
min m-a m-a o-t a pf tp
R Rondo 26:08 2-6 0-0 0-2 6 3 4
R Allen 31:18 7-18 4-4 1-7 0 3 21
K Garnett 32:55 8-14 4-5 3-10 3 0 20
P Pierce 34:50 8-14 3-5 5-10 4 1 19
K Perkins 20:10 2-2 3-4 1-7 4 2 7
E House 25:17 6-13 0-0 0-3 2 2 15
J Posey 22:02 1-4 2-2 0-4 2 1 4
T Allen 19:42 3-3 0-0 0-3 4 2 6
B Scalabrine 12:48 1-2 0-0 0-2 1 2 3
S Pollard 9:20 0-1 4-6 2-4 0 0 4
G Davis 3:25 0-2 2-2 0-0 0 0 2
L Powe 2:05 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 2 0

______________________________________________________
TOTALS 240:00 38-79 22-28 12-52 26 18 105
______________________________________________________

Percentages: FG-.481, FT-.786. 3-Point Goals:
7-21, .333 (R Allen 3-8, P Pierce 0-1, E
House 3-9, J Posey 0-2, B Scalabrine 1-1).
Team Rebounds: 13. Blocked Shots:7 (K Perkins
2, K Garnett, R Allen, G Davis, J Posey, T
Allen). Turnovers:17 (K Perkins 4, P Pierce
3, K Garnett 2, R Allen 2, R Rondo 2, T Allen
2, E House, L Powe). Steals: 9 (R Allen 3, E
House 3, R Rondo 2, K Garnett).

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GOLDEN STATE 16 21 27 18 - 82
BOSTON 25 25 31 24 - 105
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Technical fouls: Boston - 1 (K Perkins, 4:35
3rd).
Flagrant fouls: None. A: 18,624. T: 2:13.
Officials: Dick Bavetta, Gary Zielinski,
Violet Palmer.</div>

 

By Mike Petraglia
PA SportsTicker Contributing Writer


BOSTON (Ticker) - The Boston Celtics suffered no hangover fromtheir first loss of the season.


Ray Allen hit three key 3-pointers as part of a 13-point thirdquarter and finished with 21 points to help the Celticsoverpower the Golden State Warriors, 105-82, Wednesday night atthe TD Banknorth Garden.


Kevin Garnett had 20 points and 10 rebounds and Paul Pierceadded 19 and 10 as the Celtics remained perfect in six homegames.


Boston (9-1) was playing its first game since suffering itsfirst loss of the season Sunday night in Orlando. The Celticscame out with an emphasis on defense, holding the Warriors tojust 7-of-25 shooting in the first quarter and 29-of-87 (33percent) in the contest.


Monta Ellis led the Warriors (3-7) with 21 while Stephen Jacksonchipped in with 15. Golden State, which had recorded wins inToronto and New York, saw its three-game winning streak snappedand lost for the first time on its six-game East Coast roadtrip.


The Warriors came into the game without two of their top playersin Al Harrington and Matt Barnes - both were absent due topersonal reasons - and Troy Hudson also was out with a strainedleft hip.


The Celtics took advantage early, scoring the game's first fivepoints before eventually grabbing a 22-12 lead on Allen's stealand layup with 2:18 remaining in the opening quarter. Bostonled, 25-16, after the first quarter.


Golden State drew to within six points twice early in the secondquarter before James Posey connected on two free throws with9:42 remaining to start a 16-3 Celtics spurt. BrianScalabrine's 3-pointer capped the run and gave Boston a 42-23advantage with 5:33 remaining in the half.


In the first half, the Warriors looked like a team playing forthe second straight night on a cross-country swing throughEastern Conference teams.


Starters Mickael Pietrus and Kelenna Azubuike each went 0-for-5from the field as the Warriors made just 14-of-17 field goalattempts on their way to shooting 29.8 percent. Boston alsodominated the glass in the first 24 minutes, outreboundingGolden State, 31-14.


The second half proved to be no different as Boston continued toextend its lead behind Allen's big third quarter.


The Celtics won the battle of the boards, 52-40, and got 15points off the bench from guard Eddie House as the reservesguided the team to the win in the fourth quarter.

 

Re: NBA: GOLDEN STATE (3-6) at BOSTON (8-1)

Tired legs and Pietrus at starting power forward is a bad combo.</p>

There were so many bad things I can't even label them all. I just don't like Nelson's small ball, his love of Pietrus and Mbenga, and his attitude toward rookies...</p>

On the positive side, Austin Croshere against Scott Pollard matchup worked well. The dude can drive with that first step of his.</p>

Wright looked good in his limited action. He got some second chance points and even made some nice putbacks.</p>

Mbenga... wtf? The positive was that he didn't see much playing time. God that guy really sucks. I mean he's just bad... so awful... I wanted to see O'Bryant rewarded for that game where he scored with authority, instead Don Nelson goes to the creature cage instead of to the bench. Shiet, what is Nelson thinking? O'Bryant must have gone mandingo on his wife or something... I don't understand it. Why does Nelson hate POB so much and would rather play the D-league's parody of interior scoring. It just further legitimizes the excuse why we shouldn't go inside more and just shoot outside jumpers.</p>

Mbenga... more like I Mbenga my head on the table everytime I watch him try to make a putback layup or dunk or do anything related to scoring.</p>

 

By Mike Petraglia
PA SportsTicker Contributing Writer


BOSTON (Ticker) - The Boston Celtics suffered no hangover fromtheir first loss of the season.


Ray Allen hit three key 3-pointers as part of a 13-point thirdquarter and finished with 21 points to help the Celticsoverpower the Golden State Warriors, 105-82, Wednesday night atthe TD Banknorth Garden.


Kevin Garnett had 20 points and 10 rebounds and Paul Pierceadded 19 and 10 as the Celtics remained perfect in six homegames.


Boston (9-1) was playing its first game since suffering itsfirst loss of the season Sunday night in Orlando.


"The good teams in the league never lose two in a row," Allensaid. "When you lose a game, you know how to respond and how togo about competing. Even if you lose two in a row, sometimesyou just want to compete and give your best effort. Sometimesyou do lose two in a row because you face a couple of hotteams."


The Celtics came out with an emphasis on defense, holding theWarriors to just 7-of-25 shooting in the first quarter and 33percent (29-of-87) in the contest.


"Defensively, they were pretty darn good," Warriors coach DonNelson said. "What makes them so good is, of course, Garnett.He's just everywhere. And they work hard at it, but we didn'tgive them much of a challenge. We didn't move the ball, wedidn't shoot it when we had it. We were a terrible teamtonight."


Monta Ellis led the Warriors with 21 points while StephenJackson chipped in with 15. Golden State, which had recordedwins in Toronto and New York, saw its three-game winning streaksnapped and lost for the first time on its six-game East Coastroad trip.


The Warriors came into the game without two of their top playersin Al Harrington and Matt Barnes - both were absent due topersonal reasons - and Troy Hudson also was out with a strainedleft hip.


The Celtics took advantage early, scoring the game's first fivepoints before eventually grabbing a 22-12 lead on Allen's stealand layup with 2:18 remaining in the opening quarter. Bostonled, 25-16, after the first quarter.


"We were more in tune to the things we're not doing wellconsistently, and trying to fix those things," Garnett said."That's what tonight was about."


Golden State drew to within six points twice early in the secondquarter before James Posey connected on two free throws with9:42 remaining to start a 16-3 Celtics spurt. BrianScalabrine's 3-pointer capped the run and gave Boston a 42-23advantage with 5:33 remaining in the half.


In the first half, the Warriors looked like a team playing forthe second straight night on a cross-country swing throughEastern Conference teams.


"A team like that on the second night of a back-to-back you haveto put them away early," Pierce said. "If you give them anysort of confidence, those teams can sneak up on you."

"You can't use back-to-back games as an excuse, because we havea ton of back-to-back this year, if we use that excuse now, thenwe go to every back-to-back with that mentality," Ellis said."We just got beat tonight and we didn't shoot the ball well atall. We have to shoot better with teams like that, andhopefully, we get over this and bounce back the next game."

Starters Mickael Pietrus and Kelenna Azubuike each went 0-of-5from the field as the Warriors made just 14-of-17 field-goalattempts on their way to shooting 30 percent. Boston alsodominated the glass in the first 24 minutes, outreboundingGolden State, 31-14.


"I think we missed open shots when we had them and theychallenged some of them," Nelson said. "We just couldn't getanything done. Just one of those games. It happens. I'm notthat upset. We've got two more games on this road trip, so weneed a day of rest.


"We've got four in five days. The schedule-maker wasn't kind tous. But anyway, we've got another back-to-back. A day off,another back-to-back coming up. So we hope we can do a littlebetter."


The second half proved to be no different as Boston continued toextend its lead behind Allen's big third quarter.


The Celtics won the battle of the boards, 52-40, and got 15points off the bench from guard Eddie House as the reservesguided the team to the win in the fourth quarter.


"Yeah, we needed it," Celtics coach Doc Rivers said of theblowout win. "We needed this. We needed the break (THursday).We have to get through these two coming up, and then we get alittle break again, which will be very nice for us."

 

Re: NBA: GOLDEN STATE (3-6) at BOSTON (8-1)

Hey can sportsticker append the updated post to the original post instead of creating a new post every single time there's a change?</p>

 

Re: NBA: GOLDEN STATE (3-6) at BOSTON (8-1)

I think a separate game thread would help with discussion. The sports ticker posts get in the way. I actually didn't even know there was discussion going on in this thread until last week. But then again I work in the evening so I can't really post in game. DVR rocks!</p>